19 August 1968 (1968-08-19) (age 55) Athens, Greece
Medal record
Men's sailing / windsurfing
Representing Greece
Olympic Games
1996 Atlanta
Mistral
2004 Athens
Mistral
Windsurfing World Championships
1996 Haifa
Mistral
2000 Mar del Plata
Mistral
2001 Varkiza
Mistral
1995 Port Elizabeth
Mistral
2003 Cádiz
Mistral
Mediterranean Games
1993 Languedoc-Roussillon
Mistral
Nikolaos "Nikos" Kaklamanakis (Greek: Νικόλαος Κακλαμανάκης, born 19 August 1968, in Athens) is the Greek Gold-medal winner who lit the Olympic torch in the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was named one of the 1996 Greek Male Athletes of the Year.
Kaklamanakis participated in five consecutive Olympic Games from 1992 to 2008, reaching the medal race in all five of them.[1] He won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and the silver medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, while he was ninth in Barcelona (1992), sixth in Sydney (2000) and eighth in Beijing (2008).
^"Ο Νίκος Κακλαμανάκης καταγγέλλει: «Τέσσερις από τις έξι συμμετοχές μου στους Ολυμπιακούς διώκονται". 13 August 2021.
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